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Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 5.1% Full Sail Session Lager While beer geeks are bedazzled by the extremities of American brewing, it’s important to remember that the pheonomenal growth of the craft beer sector in the USA is mainly based not on hop bombs and wood aged weirdness but on much more everyday brews [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 9% Bend Hop-Head Imperial India Pale Ale My trip to one of the US’s top craft beer cities, Portland, Oregon, in Autumn 2011 could easily have accounted for half my Top Tastings of the year, but to spread things out a bit I’ve limited myself to a few outstanding and [...] First published in BEER January 2008 as part of a piece about imperial stouts. For more imperial stouts see previous post. ABV: 11 per cent Rogue XS Imperial Stout Founded in 1988, Rogue are now a mainstay of the craft brewing hotbed of the Pacific Northwest and among the handful of small US brewers [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 10% Hair of the Dog Adam
Hair of the Dog, founded in 1993 by Alan Sprints, is now known as one of the most adventurous and consistently high-hitting breweries in the craft brewing heartland of the Pacific Northwest. They clearly started as they meant to go on — this massive [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing August 2003 Origin: Newport, Oregon, USA Rogue Brutal Bitter Rogue Ales, based in the Pacific Northwest, a heartland of US craft brewing, is one of the more established of the new generation of North American craft brewers. It [...] |
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